I believe if life is common than there must of been at least one group of aliens that at least attempted to colonize it self everywhere in space?

Unless humans are a extreme anomaly and that most other aliens don’t really care about space exploration, and just focus on their home planet.

  • knifestealingcrow [any]
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    3 years ago

    I don't know shit about statistics but I read/watched something that suggested we're just early statistically. When taking into account how long the universe has existed compared to how long it could continue to exist, we're much closer to the start than the end.

    I don't think we're the first in space, but I wouldn't be surprised if we were early enough that finding evidence of other life hasn't happened bc there just haven't been that many lifeforms that could leave behind that evidence yet, and space is so big that there's a low chance that we will just happen across it.

    • Koa_lala [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Maybe we're one of the first. That would be cool, and I can just tell humans would totally take that knowledge gracefully and be respectful to all who come after. :)

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This plus the nature of light travel across the vast distances of space makes me assume that alien life is both possible, likely, and imo is already out there, but it's just not in a form sufficiently advanced enough that we would see it and/or it's so far away that the visible signs of life have been masked from observation. I mean our ability to see astral objects outside of our solar system accurately is relatively new, what are the odds we had the telescope in the right spot at the right time to catch an infinitesimally small blip of light from a civilization halfway across the galaxy